The plan was not complicated: The Giants headed into this spring with two strong and very clearly defined public leaders, Larry Baer at the top of the organization and Farhan Zaidi running the baseball operation.

The team’s largest ownership stakeholder, Charles Johnson, is almost entirely behind the scenes. The future Hall of Fame manager, Bruce Bochy, recently announced that he will be retiring after this season. The franchise, by its own admission, has put itself in transition mode and the two men in charge of this were supposed to be Baer, the old hand, and Zaidi, the “next-gen” baseball executive.

But now, at least for a little while, it’s just Zaidi.

And this might not change anytime soon, as the Giants’ entire franchise deals with the fallout from Baer’s altercation with his wife, Pam, last Friday and Baer’s personal leave of absence, which was announced Monday.